Luzerne Legal Register Reports, Volume 18

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Wilkes-Barre Law and Library Association, 1917 - Law reports, digests, etc
 

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Page 93 - Court shall allow, move the Court to have all the evidence taken upon the trial duly certified and filed so as to become part of the record, and for judgment non obstante veredicto upon the whole record...
Page 122 - ... or who shall make a false statement as to his inability to mark his ballot, or any person who shall interfere, or attempt to interfere, with any voter when inside said...
Page 16 - All the presumptions of law independent of evidence are in favor of innocence ; and every person is presumed to be innocent until he is proved guilty. If upon such proof there is reasonable doubt remaining, the accused Is entitled to the benefit of it by an acquittal.
Page 213 - An instrument to be negotiable must conform to the following requirements: 1. It must be in writing and signed by the maker or drawer ; 2. Must contain an unconditional promise or order to pay a sum certain in money ; 3.
Page 330 - Commission, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and. upon conviction, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than one year, or both.
Page 136 - The sale, transfer or assignment, in bulk, of any part or the whole of a stock of merchandise, or merchandise and the fixtures pertaining to the conducting of said business, otherwise than in the ordinary course of trade and in the regular and usual prosecution of the business of the seller, transferor or assignor, shall be void as against the creditors of the seller, transferor, assignor, unless the seller.
Page 186 - These cases seem to recognize the true principle on which the decisions should rest, only it should be noted that the intention to be sought is not the undisclosed purpose of the actor, but the intention implied and manifested by his act. It is an intention which settles, not merely his own rights, but the rights of others who have or who may acquire interests in the property. They cannot know his secret purpose; and their rights depend, not upon that, but upon the inferences to be drawn from what...
Page 274 - Every negotiable instrument is deemed prima facie to have been issued for a valuable consideration ; and every person whose signature appears thereon to have become a party thereto for value.
Page 235 - an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation ; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual effect of a known cause, and, therefore, not expected.
Page 138 - ... to serve for a term of four years from the first Monday of January next following'.

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